Yang Tong
Reigned 335 days (618–619). Assassinated; age at death unknown.
Facts
- Reign
- 22 June 618 – 23 May 619
- Length of reign
- 335 days
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 19 July 619
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- Unknown
- Cause of death
- AssassinatedKilled by officials, relatives, eunuchs or others within the same regime (including poisoning)
- Path to the throne
- Installed by othersSucceeded the previous ruler of the same regime, but the choice was made by officials, the army, eunuchs, consort kin, an empress dowager or the imperial clan
- Predecessor
- Emperor Yang of Sui
- Successor
- Wang Shichong
- Era names
- 皇泰 Huángtài (proclaimed 618)
Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.
During the reign
Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted
- Era name changes
- 1
- General amnesties
- 2
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 0
- Rebellions faced
- 1
- Capital relocations
- 0
Emperors of Sui
- 1stEmperor Wen of Sui隋文帝 Suí Wéndì楊堅 Yáng Jiān581–604 · 23 years · Disputed, age 64581–60423 yearsDisputed, age 64
- 2ndEmperor Yang of Sui隋煬帝 Suí Yángdì楊廣 Yáng Guǎng604–618 · 13 years · Assassinated, age 50604–61813 yearsAssassinated, age 50
- 3rdYang You楊侑 Yáng Yòu617–618 · 176 days · Unknown, age 15617–618176 daysUnknown, age 15
- Yang Tong楊侗 Yáng Tóng618–619 · 335 days · Assassinated618–619335 daysAssassinated
- Yang Hao楊浩 Yáng Hào618 · 195 days · Assassinated618195 daysAssassinated